lineage structure

The lineage structure of Central Asia had three different modes.

In order to distinguish the two further, we shall have to briefly consider the concept of seniority in the Tale lineage structure.

The SRC further enacted a number of reforms designed to weaken the influence of traditional lineage structures and processes, which Barre regarded as a potential threat to his rule.

Thus, if we assume a simple deterministic relationship between the social and religious orders (as anthropologists all too often do), we can expect that Nuer religion similarly extends, as it were into the skies, its own secular lineage structure.

Everyone is familiar with the regional cuisines of China, but few people outside of Chinese know that, say, the Cantonese and the Shanghainese have their own distinct music, festivals, burial and marriage customs, and family and lineage structures.

Thus as in Africa, the studies of kinship in China are moving away from the formal description of lineage structures to the description of the potential of kinship relations in coping with the problems of peasant life.

Unlike at the vast majority of Maya sites, Chunchucmil's albarrada groups contain clear boundaries between residential house lots and, as of result of this, researchers are better able to study such issues as settlement patterns, occupational density, population estimates, lineage structure, and social organization.

The lineage structure of central Asia had three different modes: genealogical distance, or the proximity of individuals to one another on a graph of kinship; generational distance, or the rank of generation in relation to a common ancestor; and birth order, the rank of brothers in relation to each another.